NEW DELHI, Mar 2:
Amol Palekar began his career as a painter before venturing into films and the actor-director now has returned to his first love with a collection of abstract paintings in oil.
Palekar, who has bid adieu to acting, said he made a comeback to art because he wanted to explore ‘silence’ through his paintings, which are currently on display here for the first time at the Indian Habitat Centre.
“Any art form works towards abstraction. There are a couple of things I want to search through my paintings. The first being silence. I observed that silence is one of the most eloquent forms of sound. I have been trying to explore silence in theatre and films and now again here I am exploring it,” Palekar said.
The collection of 40 paintings, which took him a year to make bears his signature style, predominant white spaces. The exhibition is on till March 7. “We are actually scared of silence. We have lost the beauty and strength of silence in today’s fast pace life. It is missing somewhere. To me it’s the most important somewhere, it is the pause and silence which give you the ultimate happiness,” he said. Renowned for his roles in films like “Gol Maal,” and “Rajnigandha” the 70-year-old actor held his first solo exhibition in 1967. (PTI)
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